{"podcast":{"title":"Keep Talking","slug":"keep-talking-1331245","podcast_index_feed_id":1331245,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/humans/20210520_005222_a8e19a4cd6d9a7bc6e33dc39aa33e2b3.jpg","author":"Dan Riley","episode_count":155,"summary":"\"Keep Talking\" exists to have conversations that might help to make a better society and a better culture. I believe that each guest has important information and stories to make public. And it's something that I want to share.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T02:20:25.098457+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 126: Vejas Liulevicius - Western Civilization in 60 Minutes","slug":"episode-126-vejas-liulevicius-western-civilization-in-60-minutes","published_at":"2024-10-25T09:00:19+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-126-vejas-liulevicius-western-civilization-in-60-minutes","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/humans/1716585","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/14586/1716585/humans/2024_10_23_14_54_16_895f9b5e-7eb2-4ab5-b6a9-441a480d25a9.mp3","summary":"Vejas Liulevicius is a historian, an author, and a professor whose \"Great Courses\" lectures include \"Turning Points in Modern History\" and \"War, Peace, and Power: Diplomatic History of Europe, 1500–2000.\" ------------ Book Dan to do an interview or a meeting ------------ Keep Talking Substack Spotify Apple Podcasts Social media and all episodes ------------ Support via Venmo Support on Substack Support on Patreon ------------ (00:00) Intro (01:00) Rome, Greece, and the Enlightenment (12:57) Contrasting the Enlightenment to other political philosophies of its time (22:07) The American Revolution and the American Experiment (30:47) Alexis de Tocqueville and \"Democracy in America\" (34:24) The Weimar Republic and the Rise of Nazism (46:41) How Hitler rose and what culturally preceded dictatorship in Germany (54:16) The 2024 U.S. Presidential election and our point in history (58:20) The Great Courses","meta_description":"Vejas Liulevicius is a historian, an author, and a professor whose \"Great Courses\" lectures include \"Turning Points in Modern History\" and \"War, Peace, an…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3702,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/keep-talking-1331245/episodes/episode-126-vejas-liulevicius-western-civilization-in-60-minutes/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/keep-talking-1331245/episode-126-vejas-liulevicius-western-civilization-in-60-minutes.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}